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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1888
Page
7
Carters Shoe Store advertises remarkable prices on men’s calf skin shoes. The ad touts an $3.00 man’s shoe with button and elastic, seamless vamp, perfect fit, and wear quality rivaling the finest goods on the market.
Dawson Georgia March 19 1888 readers hear a satirical take on tariff talk as a nuisance. The column mocks public debate with Captain Dillon’s street arguments while comparing campaigners to Civil War strategies on sidewalks. It closes with reflections on wool versus cotton and a call for tariff reform.
A circular by W J Northen head of Georgia Agricultural Society explains Central Railroad immigration plans will boost the State Fair. The scheme aims to sync immigration with fair exhibits, Central Railroad offering free transport for exhibits and a summer immigration agent touring Georgia to promote mining forest and farm products. The joint effort expected to yield the largest fair yet and a rise in migrants. In a separate note Valentine Winters of Dayton Ohio is said to regularly leave sizable fortunes to his descendants, with envelopes containing deeds stocks and bonds found under plates at meals, totaling nearly 500000 and 400000 in 1882.
Sold by Dr. E. J. Eldridge Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as best for cuts bruises sores ulcers boils fever sores tetter chilblains chapped hands and skin eruptions with a guarantee of satisfaction or money refunded. Price per box not specified in fragment.
An inter state immigration convention is planned for Hot Springs North Carolina on April 11 with delegates from several railroads and state officials invited along with prominent citizens and church leaders. Gen Alexander distances Central railroad from the plan and notes aim to attract Western farmers rather than foreign colonists to Georgia. A separate note mentions a Wisconsin church using champagne bottles as an improvised drainage system.
The article discusses crossing Southdown rams with small native ewes, mating ewes with Oxford or Shropshire rams for larger offspring, and emphasizes well balanced rations, water, salt, and bedding to save costs. It cites Britain’s butter and milk needs, pig counts, windmills for farm use, feeding stock with warm water, soil and fruit cultivation guidance, composting manure with lime and urine, and proper manure heap management and spreading as soil corrective practices.
An old physician claims a vegetable remedy cures consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and lung issues plus nervous debility. He will mail the free recipe with usage directions in German French or English to any requester citing the paper. Also noted is a northern capitalist plan to build a 150000 dollar hotel in Bainbridge this year.
Petitioners led by H O Reed Julian Lipman T Wheatley and others ask the Superior Court to incorporate as The Americus Gas Light Company to manufacture and supply gas and electric lights in Americus Georgia. They seek authority to sue and be sued borrow money own property issue bonds mortgage trust deed and lay mains pipes and fixtures for twenty years with renewal option.
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